Ignorance Quotes

When wisdom gives way to whimsy and ethics fall to excitement, it is highly likely that the ground beneath me will ‘give way’ and it is I who will ‘fall.

~ Craig D. Lounsbrough

Education is free. Though the education I refer to is not confined to a stuffy old building that still manages to retain its charm – don’t get me wrong, I love my school – but it’s out there in the real world. Waiting to be experienced. Waiting for the curious young minds of tomorrow to free themselves from the shackles of ignorance and transcend above everyday like-minded thoughts and uncover the mysteries of tomorrow.

~ Anika De Souza

To an ignorant lady, she wants to look attractive and beautiful while some conscienceless men prey on her life.

~ Sunday Adelaja

May the stars ever shine on your path, and the darkness never leave your side.

~ Osman Welela

Because of ignorance and negligence we lost the most precious value-life.

~ Sunday Adelaja

Racism is a refuge for the ignorant. It seeks to divide and to destroy. It is the enemy of freedom, and deserves to be met head-on and stamped out.

~ Pierre Berton

True tolerance only arises from a keen awareness of the abysmal ignorance of everyone as far as truth is concerned.

~ Anthony De Mello

Not engaging in ignorance is wisdom.

~ Bodhidharma

Ignorance never yet helped anybody.

~ Karl Marx

The only response to stupidity and ignorance was silence

~ Soroosh Shahrivar

Confusion is a good state to be in. It means you are looking, constantly looking. People ask me, Why do you confuse us like this? I want you to understand, if you can be confused by anybody, it means you do not know. If you are fanatical, you cannot be confused. Or if you are realized, you cannot be confused. Between ignorance and enlightenment is a very thin line. But they are worlds apart.

~ Sadhguru

Ignorance is the parent of fear ...

~ Herman Melville

Ignorance is the worst liberation. To know even a few is better than knowing nothing at all.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

That I had come full circle shouldn't have surprised me, for we are born into time only to be born out of it, after living through the cycles of the seasons, under stars that turn because the world turns, born into ignorance and acquiring knowledge that ultimately reveals to us our enduring ignorance: The circle is the essential pattern of our existence.

~ Dean Koontz

I think that stupidity is like a wild fire burning through the social fabric of an intrinsically reasonable existence.

~ Travis Culliton

The more I see of the country, the less I feel I know about it. There is a saying that after five years in the north every man is an expert; after ten years, a novice.

~ Pierre Berton

The disruption of science is one which abandons the method and seeks to conquer grounds outside its territory. It is not at all religion but this pseudo-science that is the enemy of science.

~ Criss Jami

The confession of ignorance is crucial to the pursuit of knowledge. Another way of putting it is that those who pretend to know never will – they lack the humility to learn.

~ Jonathan Renshaw

Only ignorance makes people put up with defeat.

~ Sunday Adelaja

Only locks in life are what you think you know, but don’t. Accept your ignorance and try something new.

~ Dennis Vickers

Don't judge what you don't know.

~ Maria V. Snyder

We must all work in harmony with each other to stand up for what is right, to speak up for what is fair, and to always voice any corrections – so that the ignorant become informed and justice is never ignored. Every time a person allows an act of ignorance to happen (one ignorant word, thought or action), they delay our progress for TRUE CHANGE. Every person, molecule, and thing matters. We become responsible for the actions of others the instant we become conscious of what they are doing wrong.

~ Suzy Kassem

I guess I just grew up thinking that when we become adults, we get to do what we love. For work, for fun, forever. I don't know where I got that from. Seems silly now.

~ Crystal Woods

It's better to shut up and give the impression that you're stupid than to say something and erase all doubt.

~ Auliq Ice

The biggest battle is the war against ignorance.

~ Mustafa Kemal Atatürk

People you've known, seemingly forever, may claim to have love for you, but when gossip's tainted tongue whips you - they don't show enough love to weigh your history against false witness. Be that as it may, press forward as the dust settles. Your purpose is much bigger than their paltriness.

~ T.f. Hodge

Ignorance is a flaw and pride is another blemish caused by ignorance.

~ Bahman Solati

But karma is not in fact a material accumulation, and does not depend on externals; rather its power to condition us depends on the obstacles that impede our knowledge. If we compare our karma and the ignorance that creates it to a dark room, knowledge of the primordial state would be like a lamp, which, when lit in the room, at once causes the darkness to disappear, enlightening everything. In the same way, if one has the presence of the primordial state, one can overcome all hindrances in an instant.

~ Namkhai Norbu

The signs are just not subtle enough to pass onto oversight in lieu of self preservation.

~ Daleen Van Tonder

You can't discuss the ocean with a well frog - he's limited by the space he lives in. You can't discuss ice with a summer insect - he's bound to a single season.

~ Zhuangzi

I would like to be without shame. I would like to be shameless. I would like to be ignorant. Then I would not know how ignorant I was.

~ Margaret Atwood

Knowledge is a rope, and you're weaving a noose out of it. Leave some slack for the enemy.

~ Nenia Campbell

Ignorance defends itself savagely, and illiteracy, as I well knew, can be shrewd.

~ Ursula K. Le Guin

To read narrowly and shallowly is to read from a place of ignorance.

~ Roxane Gay

In the world everyone knows enough to pursue what he does not know, but no one knows enough to pursue what he already knows. Everyone knows enough to condemn what he takes to be no good, but no one knows enough to condemn what he has already taken to be good.

~ Zhuangzi

Accessibility to information never been so advanced and easy in entire human history as it is now and we have no excuse for ignorance.

~ Baris Gencel

Blogging, writing conventional articles, and being science consultant and pocket protector ninja to various web portals and TV programs, quite often trying to promote the penicillin of hard data to people who had no interest in being cured of their ignorance.

~ Stephen L. Burns

Ignorance does not pave the path for life.

~ Kishore Bansal

How often ignorance stings less than knowledge.

~ Janny Wurts

To mock something is pure ignorance. Intelligent people even open themselves to things that they don't understand. […] When an ignorant praises something, it won't probably be something profound. Surely it can't be the Principle that guides us.

~ Alfonso Colodrón